10 Years Ago Center Lake Conservation Association met to finalize a lakes and rivers enhancement engineering feasibility study. Members are Bill Hilliard, president; Jerry Patterson, vice president; Neal Carlson,Troy Turley, Judy Brown, Roger Bair and Dale Long. Brent Lamb, son of Bruce and Beth Lamb, Milford, and Heather Cumberland, daughter of Greg and Jackie Cumberland, Akron, have been awarded Indiana 4-H Foundation Congress scholarships for their achievements. Katie Grossnickle, daughter of Steve and Lori Grossnickle, Winona Lake, and her six-year-old mare, Deeviation, earned top honors at the 38th Annual All-American Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus, Ohio. She got her first horse from Jim Garner, New Paris, when she was six. He is still her trainer. 25 Years Ago For Claypool Elementary School’s storybook character day, Deanna Miller was Garfield; Nathan Miller, a cowboy; Jessica Hackworth, Laura Ingalls; Joel Brubaker, Clifford; Stacy Denny, Mama Bear; John Shively, Casey at the Bat; Ben Knoop, Robinson Caruso; Betty Bays, Snow White; Deric Ransbottom, Huck Finn; and Karri Bloom, Amelia Bedelia. Kevin Westover of Explorer Van Company presented the keys to a donated 1986 Ford van to Grace College president Dr. John Davis. Sam Hedington and his horse were working out on his property south of Warsaw. Harness racing is coming to Chicago Dec. 18 and he wants to be ready. Army Cpl. Roger D. King, son of Dallas and Phyllis King, has arrived for duty at Fort Drum, N.Y. He is the team leader with the 22nd Infantry. 50 Years Ago From the 1914 issue of The Times: Earl Himes, North Webster, defeated Mitchell of Connersville, a professional wrestler, at Pierceton Friday night. Mitchell took the first fall in 19 minutes; Himes, the second fall in 10 minutes, and had his opponent so at his mercy that the third fall was forfeited to Himes. Loren Melick, Warsaw, and B. Chapman, Pierceton, boxed a few rounds in exhibition as a preliminary to the match. Glenn Smith of Warsaw served as referee. William J. Landrigan, social studies teacher at Warsaw Junior High, talked with Mr. and Mrs. George Phillips during open house at the school. Their son, Sidney, is a seventh-grader in one of Landrigan’s classes. 75 Years Ago Soaping of Police Chief Raymond Neff’s automobile and 29 other cars on Indiana Street resulted in Eugene Davis, 12, and James Williamson, 14, being the guests of Sheriff Burton B. Foulke at the county jail. They had been warned that no pre-Halloween pranks would be allowed in Warsaw. Soaping of automobiles, street car tracks or the overturning of outhouses will not be tolerated. Mary Jane McKown, baton-twirler for the high school band, Donald “Red” Butler, Daily Times carrier boy of Soap Box Derby fame, and George “Curly Head” Hatfield were elected cheerleaders for Warsaw High School by vote of the student body.
